A free weekly Newsletter with a round-up of WordPress news and articles
ServerPress Is Shutting Down
ServerPress, makers of DesktopServer, a WordPress local development tool, announced it is shutting down after 12 years in business. The company emailed its customers and posted a farewell message on its website after disabling new purchases and is in the process of canceling renewals for existing subscriptions.
Proposal: Stop Merging Experimental APIs from Gutenberg to WordPress Core
This call for feedback will be open for the next four weeks until September 7th. To date, 280 experimental APIs were merged from the Gutenberg plugin to WordPress Core. That’s problematic, and here’s why. WordPress values backward compatibility. Upgrading to a new version should not break the plugins and themes, so WordPress public APIs these plugins and themes depend on are maintained across major versions.
The 20i WordPress Manager: Effortless Website Management – Without Plugins
20i, one of the UK’s leading WordPress hosting companies, has announced the launch of their fully functioning 20i WordPress Manager, built directly into their customers’ control panel. Key features include enable/disable sites, security scans, activate/deactivate plugins and themes, perform bulk plugin/theme updates and full user management. Additionally, there are no paid upgrades or marketplaces to pay for additional functionality.
